The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-10-06
The Woman's Column.

The Woman's Exhibit in the Chicago Expo
Sition shows books written by nearly two hum
dred women. and over sixty papers edited by
women.
Mrs. johnson. superintendent of the woman'>
prison at Sherborn. Mass. allows 10 alcoholic
| liquors to any inmate. not even to those in the
hospital
Margaret Dale owen is writing and >pcakin.
in favor Of an original dre>>-reform garb. whicl
is called the Da!e-Owen robe. She is grand
daughter Of Robert Owen.
Miss Florence Greene. of Montreal. who
saved her father last summer from being ear
ried over the Lachine Rapids has hecn pre-
scented with the medal Of the Royal Humane
Society of England.
Miss Mary &. Burdettc. sister of Bob Bur
dette, the humori>t, i winning approval in q
serious undertaking. She delivers SUNDAY eve.
ming lectures on religious topics. and has good
| audiences Whenever she appears.
Mrs. Case. real estate agent in Chicago
makes 4 speciality of renting furnished houses.
and she succeeds admirably. because women
understand better than men what furnished
house requires and how to show it.
Helen NJ iIcrlic in the Contemporary Review
deals in a strong and pungent manner with the
notion now put forward that women need Il
| lower am. not hi CHER education She claims
| that what promotes intelligent womanhood is
good for all that may come to women rs wives
and mothers.
Mrs. Lucas, of London, Miss Willard Of
| hcago. and Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith. of
! Philadelphia. have issued a circular in which
they ask Christian women everywhere TO OBJ
serve November II and l3 as days of PRAYER for
divine blessing upon every form of temper
ancc work in the world.
1t is stated in the Boston Advertiser that the
| trustees of Wellesley have not considered the
name of any person as Miss freemans Success
or, and they are reluctant to believe that the
present successful President will really leave
| them. Her resignation takes effect upon the
choice of her successor.
Ida Lewis, the heroine Of Line Rock. lives
| alone in the lighthouse, her parents being
dead and her brother gone to follow the sea.
Miss Lewis saved thirteen lives between 1869
and 1881. She does all her own hou>ework.
keeps the light trimmed and burning. and finds
| time to raise few flowers in the crcvices Of
the rocks.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage Societies of Law
renee, Fort scott. Emporia and Topeka have
decided to each furnish articles for the Woman
Suffrage Bazaar TO he held in Boston. Mass,
that will sell for one hundred dollars; Larned,
Anthony. Lincoln. thetopa and other points.
fifty dollars worth of gifts; Atchison, Abilene,
Independence and other places promise to do
| Ill! luev can.
The Providence Journal says, The question
OF the admission Of women to Brown nivcr-
| sity will be decided some other day. The dis
lance to Cambridge is rot great, however. and
| the opportunities for the higher education of
women increase in many other places. We are
a little slow here. eventually we shall catch up
with the procession ''iIarvard Annex
miles is thus a proposed Rhode Island guide
! board.
Mrs. Joseph Carey. whose husband represents
| wyoming Territory in Congress. says that
while the presence of ladies has put complete
check Oh the drunkenness and bad language
attendant on the balot-boN. it also makes
others characters and even millinery. For
example, if said that had seen Mrs. Blank in
| the same Old bonnet that she wore last wear
and Mrs. Blank should hear of the remark.
| doubt If the lady would ever vote for my hus-
band again. This is a triiiing illustration, but
| 1t Will show how responsible women may be
made, and how the suffrage acts as preventive
to careless or malicious gossip"
The returns Of women'o voting at the recent
| school elections in the country districts of New
1 York State show that women there are using
their right of suffrage more generally than ever
! before. In several cases Where there was
reason to believe that they could promote the
| election Of deserving candidates, they turned
out with commendahle alacrity. At North Tar
rytown alone, over one hundred women voted,
and several times that number tried to do so,
but We're rejected on wrong construction of
the law. AT Spring Valley and at Port Clcs-
ter the women came out in force. and in the
| latter town they turned the scale and secured
the election of an admirably qualified woman
on the School Board.